The film follows 3 people, Sean, (Sean Stone), Alex (Alexander Wraith), and Antonella (Antonella Lentini) as they break into Greystone Park, an abandoned mental hospital with a devious past of tortures, unnecessary surgeries, and lobotomies, to explore and film any kind of paranormal activity.

They got more than they bargained for…

The film opens with Alex checking out Greystone with a bunch of disorienting camera work and imagery. Then cuts to Sean and Oliver (Stone) sitting with family/friends, including Alex and Antonella, hitting a hookah and telling stories and Sean is convinced by Alex to make a film about Greystone Park, an abandoned psychiatric hospital.

The three go there the next night and all hell breaks loose.

The locations used were Letchworth Village in Rockland County, NY, Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens, NY, and Linda Vista Community Hospital, were all real locations with sordid pasts. For example, Letchworth Village tortured children and at one point, was so underfunded, that many patients were left unclothed, unbathed and neglected.

All of the locations were abandoned and used as is; no repairs were made and no studios were used to recreate, so there was a danger to the cast and crew, as the buildings or parts of the buildings could collapse at any moment, but this lends to the authenticity of the film.

Sean did a great job of directing. The film as a whole is one long, disorienting, experience. Everything was shot dark, and that was its best and most damning attribute. It was awesome because it kept everything a secret, and it wasn’t awesome because, it kept everything secret. However, if Sean would’ve went dark to light to dark again, (the flickering lights don’t count), I don’t think it’d be as effective as it was because, you were experiencing the same as the characters. Just not the same if you can see things they can’t, (like if it is supposed to be pitch black or very low light, but the viewer can see it clearly). Something else I really loved was the subliminal imagery. (Watch the walls, and watch this a 2nd time and look when they are taking pictures.)

Sean Stone is the son of Oliver Stone (Platoon, Savages), and sometimes children of directors, or any major Hollywood players, think that they are entitled based solely on their lineage, but actually have no talent and don’t need to earn it. This is not the case, as Sean definitely paid attention to his father and knows how to direct.

If I have any gripe with the film at all, it would be the ending. Not that it was over my head, but it was rather enigmatic and open for interpretation, but it’s better than the alternate ending, which was also creepy, but a little too cheesy. Also, the cover of the DVD was a little too generic, with a general J-horror chick with one eye showing through her long hair standing in front of the hospital, but Sean probably didn’t have anything to do with that. Some of the sound effects sounded a little stock, like the demon laughter sounds like the deep “ha, ha, ha,” you’ve probably heard before.

I really enjoyed this film. Watch it with the lights off and on some surround sound and you’ll probably be turning the lights on again very soon…

9/10

The filmmakers and XLrator Media has send us over screening information for "Greystone Park". The screening will take place at 42nd Streets Times Scares on October 16th at 10PM in New York City. The film marks marks Sean Stone's feature film directorial debut and stars Stone, Alexander Wraith, and Antonella Lentini with a special guest appearance by Oliver Stone. If you can't make it to the screening, "Greystone Park" will aviliable on DVD and Blu-Ray on the same day.


On a fall night, three filmmakers break into Greystone Park, a hospital known for its radical treatment of patients with mental illness, where electroshock, pressure baths, and lobotomies were commonplace. Once inside, the filmmakers discover that they are not alone; and having entered this realm, reality as they know it will never again be the same.

GREYSTONE PARK marks Sean Stone's feature film directorial debut and stars Stone, Alexander Wraith, and Antonella Lentini with a special guest appearance by Oliver Stone. The film takes Sean Stone's skills as a storyteller and performer, talents learned from working on his father’s films, and releases demons from the crevices of the dark, cavernous hospital.

“The film is made in the tradition of Edgar Allen Poe, the great American writer, who recognized that there is nothing more terrifying than not knowing whether one is experiencing something frightening, or whether one is going mad and simply creating the fear,” Stone says. “But perhaps, there is a connection between the two—the world we see is created by our imagination; and our imagination is fueled by the world we see. So from this fear-fueled journey, the shadows of Greystone Park have come alive...”

Sean has grown up in film, having acted since childhood in his father’s films, including THE DOORS, JFK, NATURAL BORN KILLERS, and SAVAGES. A graduate of Princeton University in 2006, Sean wrote and directed his first short film, SINGULARITY, in 2007, about a future world of constant big-brother surveillance in the name of fighting a mysterious ‘plague.’ Sean then became an editorial consultant on W., and subsequently worked as an editor on Oliver Stone’s 10-part documentary series on THE UNTOLD HISTORY OF AMERICA, which debuted at the 50th New York Film Festival.

Times Scare is a year-round horror-themed restaurant, bar, and haunted house, complete with a 200-seat theater, currently the home of Silence the Musical. GREYSTONE PARK is presented as part of the Terror Tuesdays film series, where for the mere price of a burger you gain entry into the dark lair within.

GREYSTONE PARK is now available on VOD and will be available on DVD on October 16th through XLrator Media.

Xlrator Media has send us over the official poster for "Greystone Park". The film is the directorial debut from director Sean Stone, who is son of legendary director Oliver Stone. "Greystone Park" will be available on VOD on September 13th and on DVD on October 16th.

Plot Synopsis:

SYNOPSIS: Based on true events, the film follows three aspiring filmmakers trying to document unexplainable events in an abandoned insane asylum known as Greystone Park. Urban legend has it that anyone who ventures into the forsaken hospital will suffer the consequences and face their own horrors. The trio stumble across a mysterious realm of escaped patients, ghosts and demonic shadows, as they try to uncover the truth behind Greystone Park.

GREYSTONE PARK stars Sean Stone, Oliver Stone, Alexander Wraith, Antonella Lentini, John Schramm, Monique Zordan and Monique Van Vooren and written by Stone and Wraith.